The Shoemoney System has been dragging along at an absolutely glacial pace. My first commenter, Anthony, said it best;
What [The Shoemoney System has] covered so far is very, very basic stuff and I doubt anyone has had any real benefit out of it… Seeing the next few videos to come looks like another slow week or two. Sponsored Tweets again isn’t going to set the World on fire for many.
(edited and paraphrased by me – full version on “Is the Shoemoney System Reopening Its Doors?“) The Shoemoney System is taking basic to a level I didn’t even think was possible. If you are a 72 year old woman, a “beauty pageant contestant” from Nebraska, or you’ve been in a coma for 20 years, then the Shoemoney System (at least the first few weeks) is for you. If you have an email account, then I guess you want the accelerated version. Which doesn’t exist. There have been a couple more videos and a webinar and I’m not even going to get into them because they’re dull beyond belief. In the webinar, Shoemoney did vaguely mention that maybe they’d be speeding things up due to feedback. We’ll see I guess.
Enough about the Shoemoney System, I want to move on to actually making money online. Due to how slowly the Shoemoney System has been moving, last weekend I went in search of information on my own (a novel concept, I know). The problem with finding information about making money online is that the arena is full of garbage and B.S. I wandered through some well-known forums that revolve around making money online and found what I expected – crap. I had to wade through 14 flame posts, a bunch of stupid pictures of cats, people trying to pitch pointless products to even find one piece of useful information. This isn’t just true of the making money online arena, it’s basically what you find on any forum. Forums, for the most part, are absolute garbage.
There ARE some good forums out there. But they’re few and far between.
So I took to simply Googling “make money online” thinking that perhaps someone who actually knows something about making money online would also know how to dominate the search engines and perhaps give out useful information instead of pitching garbage to passersby. And lo-and-behold I found what I was looking for.
I stumbled across a blog called “Making Money Online for Beginners” <link removed because he’s removed that blog> by a guy named Grizzly Brears. What got my attention was that this was the ugliest blog I’d ever seen. It wasn’t covered in ads, shooting pop-ups in your face, and trying to direct your attention this way and that. It was just page after page of text with a very boring layout. I learned (by reading his blog for the past week) that the ugliness is intentional as most people would see this and click away (preferably using an Adsense ad or affiliate link). And he has only a moderate amount of ads because he has a soft spot for the readership he’s unintentionally developed (aw, how sweet). You can go to his blog and read this for yourself though.
He essentially walks you through his process of making money online step-by-step. The blog itself was an experiment to see if he could rank in the number 1 spot on Google for “Make Money Online.” He isn’t in the number 1 spot now, but I suspect he was there at some point (I haven’t gotten that far yet). He obviously knows how to dominate the SERPS and from there he makes money using Adsense, affiliate offers, lead generation etc. He gives you just about every piece of information he’s gained from doing this for years and it’s not $197 a month, it’s completely free. Yep, FREE. This is a rare find, so I suggest you stop reading this and go read his blog right now.
Oh, and in case you hadn’t noticed, I already have someone commenting. Which means people are already finding my blog. And it’s already been indexed by Google. Go ahead and check. This website’s barely a week old. How’d that happen? Go read Griz’s Blog and find out! I haven’t even really begun to implement the things I’ve learned over there.
Anyway, I’ve got some reading to do myself as I’m only up through 2007. I’ve also got more homework to do using what I’ve already learned from his blog. So a final note for this post; the Shoemoney System is for recently awoken coma victims and “How to Make Money Online for Beginners” is a rare gem that anyone aspiring to make money online should read. Seriously. Why are you still here? Go.
Update: (about 4 minutes after originally posting this) Today’s Shoemoney Systems video is about pitching crap to people in… wait for it…forums! I’m seriously watching it right now. I didn’t know this when I wrote the above paragraph, I promise. I find this hilarious. I’m really laughing out loud over here (not just typing lol to people). Damnit, Shoemoney, I want to pretend like I’m not wasting my money here, but you’re making it increasingly difficult to convince myself of this. I have to at least believe that he knows this is complete crap and he is playing the “nice guy” to appease his general customer base.
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I too am a member of the system. I love how he states that his name and brand are on the line. All the legit reviews I’ve read are seemingly negative. I hope that he releases more stuff that is actually worth while, otherwise I too will end up writing a negative review. Thanks for sharing this.
Hi d3so,
Have you gone into the member’s area today? They released over 30 videos covering all the basic stuff, and they sent out an email saying that they did this in response to complaints that the system is too slow. They’re no longer considering account set-ups and basic definition videos part of the core content.
I’m actually really interested in the latest developments in the Shoemoney System regarding ebay arbitrage. I’ve spent a bit of time this weekend looking around for the kind of opportunities Shoemoney talks about, and look forward to the videos that are coming out next week that show you exactly how to capitalize on these market imbalances.
Griz is a star, his blog is also a doorway into the real guts of how to make money online (solid tested, working, SEO). I’ve been churning out (almost zero cost) $15K+ a month for a couple of years now because instead of doing what somebody told me was great (via an affiliate commission for them) I concentrated on what I found actually worked. I use certain tools but only where they don’t promise the earth and I can see “how” they would be effective. There is a huge amount of bullshit out there, Griz tells it exactly how he sees it and has the rankings to back it up. Shoemoney got lucky in 1 niche and was clever in how he re-invested the money. It’s not a repeatable plan for 99.999999% of people.
In saying that I’ve also signed up for the Shoemoney System. My reason was simple, I thought it would be a nice way of introducing my daughter to what her dad does for a living. She likes Shoe and Jamie but she’s bored to tears with the content. Just to keep her interested I took her through promoting Amazon MP3 downloads to her friends to make some cash. Money is a great motivator
Also if you think it’s slow for you, you want to try it as an international marketer – there has been nothing of any use so far.
Anyway, this is possibly the longest comment ever so I’ll stop now. Keep up the good work, it’s great to see how somebody else is finding the system, in an honest non affiliate, full of shit way.
Hi Paul,
That WAS a long comment. It was almost like reading one of Grizz’s posts.
I agree though, he is a rockstar. And without even trying. He just says he’s going to do something, does it, and then shows everybody how. It’s almost laughable how easy he makes it seem while others toil away doing things that don’t work and don’t get results. I wish I’d heard of him back when he was in the process of doing his experiments, though I’m sure there will be more.
That’s awesome that you’ve managed to do so well making money online. It’s a bit of inspiration for newbies like myself. I’m just starting out, and luckily Shoemoney is the only person who’s gotten me to pay up for a program. Oh, besides that Problogger.com forum. That place was a joke though, and I promptly left that clown car. Not even worth $2/month. Ah crap, I lied again, I’m also trying out TheKeywordAcademy (by Court and Mark – friends of Griz) but that’s cost a whole dollar and I’ve already learned a ton and have found several profitable niches.
Your daughter is lucky to have someone like yourself with experience to guide her through the process of making money online. Selling MP3 downloads to friends; very clever. Now my comment is getting a bit long. I just read your 1 month review of the Shoemoney System though, and it’s spot on.